Completing the merge

- We have our mail merge primary file open…in Word, we've already auto-checked for errors…using the Check for Errors command…in the Preview Results group, now we are ready…to finish our merge and combine our primary letter…with the records from the data source…to create personalized letters.…There are two options for merging letters,…actually three options in total.…Sending email messages we will talk about in later movies.…

We're going to talk now about editing…individual documents and printing documents.…Here's how to think of these.…The first choice, Edit Individual Documents,…really says, merge all these documents…to one, single file that I can then examine and print.…So you'll end up with one document…that's, in this case, 200 pages long,…because we have a single-page document…and 200 individual records.…The second says, send these right to the printer.…

Now, if you need to keep a copy…of your merged file, the actual documents you set,…for example, you need proof that you generated…each and every one of these letters, then you're going…